Jakarta International School Sexual-Abuse Investigation Widens

School Administrator and Teaching Assistant Named by Police as Suspects

By

Richard C. Paddock

Updated July 12, 2014 2:42 a.m. ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Police have named an administrator and a teaching assistant as suspects in a widening investigation of alleged sexual abuse at the prestigious Jakarta International School, marking the first time that staff members, not contract employees, have formally been identified as suspects.

Allegations of sexual abuse at the school have grown over the past three months following accusations that a janitor raped a kindergarten boy. Parents have alleged that dozens of attacks took place and that at least three...